ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,173, issued on April 14, was assigned to Nicoventures Trading Ltd. (Great Britain).
"Refilling apparatus" was invented by Howard Rothwell (London), My-Linh Tran (London), Stephen Potter (London), Robert Kersey (London) and Tomi Vintola (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refilling unit for refilling a refillable article for use with an aerosol provision device for generating aerosol from aerosol-generating material stored within the refillable article, the refilling unit including: an article port for receiving at least the article; an information reader configured to read a readable element for storing information correspondin...